A Commitment to Promote Behavioral Change
Healthier people can be happier, more productive employees. Healthy employees can lower overall health costs. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) offers solutions that promote healthier lifestyles.
BCBSTX's resources to help manage metabolic syndrome combine health, wellness and medical management programs.
People who struggle with metabolic syndrome may need help viewing diet and exercise as preventive steps that can help improve their general health. You can offer to support them.
A Multi-Faceted Approach to the Fight Against Metabolic Syndrome
Using intensive education, support and rewards, the BCBSTX Metabolic Syndrome Program is a wide-ranging approach that may result in fewer claims, lower health care costs and a healthier, more productive workforce.
On-site or Online Workshops
Workshops consist of a 10-week series of on-site or online classes led by health coaches. (There is a charge per participant for workshops.) Each on-site workshop requires a minimum of 30 participants and no more than 50 participants. If you have strong employee interest, you can set up multiple workshops.
Workshops are designed to encourage permanent behavior change by:
- Teaching participants how to eat the foods they like in appropriate amounts
- Focusing on weight loss through understanding eating and hunger cues; accessing online food diaries to help log behavior
- Identifying ways to incorporate regular exercise into personal lifestyles
- Providing pre- and post-workshop biometric screenings for body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol
- Providing personalized two-way e-mail support from health coaches
In February 2008, BCBSTX conducted a Metabolic Syndrome Program for 200 employees. Results show that BCBSTX employee participants in the intensive, on-site workshop experienced meaningful outcomes:
- 37.6 percent reversed their metabolic syndrome in 10 weeks
- An average weight loss of 12.9 pounds*
- 29.9 percent reported a reduction in medication usage
Your employees may also experience better health after completing this program.
To learn more about the workshops and to determine if the Metabolic Syndrome Program is right for your organization, contact your BCBSTX representative.
Related Information
Metabolic Syndrome Program Resources
*Results show 91.9 percent of participants lost this amount of weight.
